A new start after 60: 'I almost died of cancer. Then I became an actor -- at 63!'; Julian Bird was a psychiatrist when he was diagnosed with bladder cancer -- and began daydreaming about being an actor. Seventeen years later, he is playing the lead at a London theatre

Byline: Paula Cocozza When Julian Bird was 60, he was diagnosed with cancer of the bladder. He had a series of operations, 'all very unpleasant', and learned that he 'was [...]